“…One large study [1] evaluated 3.4 million patients cared for by 80,000 primary care physicians and showed that 19% of physicians with low MIPS scores had composite outcomes performance metrics in the top quintile, while 21% of physicians with high MIPS scores had outcomes in the bottom quintile. This corroborates the findings of our featured article in CORR ® , in which Schloemann and colleagues [6] found only a small association between MIPS quality scores for individual physicians and the risk of an unplanned hospital visit after outpatient orthopaedic surgery, and that these visits consisted mostly of trips to the emergency department.…”